Yanny Petters' Heathland at Art Evolve 2025 Fair, RDS, Dublin, 4-6 April

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to showcase Yanny Petters' 'Heathland' at ART EVOLVE 2025, RDS, Dublin, April 4 to April 6, 2025.

This work will feature at our stand no 27, alongside other works by the artist and by the following artists we represent: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Eoin Mac Lochlainn,  Miriam McConnon and Kelly Ratchford. We will also showcase work by three artists from our AGA group: Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox and Nickie Hayden.

This painting is part of Petters’ body of work titled ‘Fieldwork with Mainie and Albrecht, Twelve Irish habitats in homage to the artists who have inspired me’ which was recently exhibited at our gallery.

This painting features -and is beautifully reproduced- in Dr Éimear O’Connor’s excellent 6-page review of the artist’s verre églomisé practice in the spring edition of the Irish Arts Review magazine.

A beautiful painting, a must see-and-buy artwork! Yanny Petters’ work is in many collections: National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland, OPW State Art Collection, Dr Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens, UK just to mention a few.

Except from Dr Éimear O’Connor’s review

“Stained-glass artist Harry Clarke also had an acute eye for diminutive detail, as exemplified in his commissioned windows for Bewley’s Café on Grafton Street in Dublin, which, on close inspection, reveal the extent of his precision and creative focus. It is to these windows that Petters pays homage in Heathland, featuring burnet rose, bilberry, bell heather, sheep’s-bit, milkwort and tormentil (Fig 9). As a habitat, our heathlands are under threat from overgrazing and higher rainfall. Petters’ treatment of wildflowers in Heathlands - and, more specifically, of the space surrounding the flowers - is deeply reminiscent of Clarke’s inventiveness…”

Two other paintings -from the same series- will be exhibited alongside 'Heathland': 'Walls' and 'Pond'

Art Evolve, a brand-new contemporary art fair showcasing the very best of Ireland’s contemporary art scene.